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8 | A series of ''New York Times'' bestselling fantasy books by Aprilynne Pike, featuring a young home-schooled girl named Laurel Sewell who transfers to public school, finds out she's actually a faerie changeling, falls in love with two boys, and fights trolls. |
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10 | The first three books are titled ''Wings'', ''Spells'' and ''Illusions''; the fourth one, ''Destined'', was released in 2012. |
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13 | !!These books provide examples of: |
14 | * AesopAmnesia: Laurel is unfortunately prone to this. She ignores her mentor Jamison's warning not to get complacent - ''twice'' - and Shar's warning (see WhatTheHellHero below) has no effect on her actions whatsoever. |
15 | * AllMythsAreTrue: Laurel is constantly finding faerie history behind various legends: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', King Arthur, even Genesis. |
16 | * AlmostKiss: Laurel and Tamani are prone to these. |
17 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Trolls. Laurel points out conscientiously that there ''might'' be good trolls, but neither she nor the reader has met one yet. |
18 | %%* {{Arcadia}}: Avalon. |
19 | %%* AscendedFangirl: Laurel's friend Chelsea. |
20 | %%* BettyAndVeronica: David, Laurel's human classmate, and Tamani, her faerie childhood friend. |
21 | %%* BigBrotherMentor: Shar to Tamani. |
22 | * BodyguardCrush: Tamani appoints himself Laurel's ''fear-gleididh'', or protector for life. |
23 | * ChangelingFantasy: Laurel finds out she is a "scion", selected to inherit her foster-parents' land and bring it into faerie possession. |
24 | * CharmPerson: The Spring faeries' only power, which only works on humans. |
25 | * ChekhovsGun: "How long can you hold your breath?" |
26 | %%* ChekhovsGunman: Klea. |
27 | %%* DanceOfRomance: Laurel and Tamani in ''Spells''. |
28 | * DancesAndBalls: A lot of the action seems to happen coming home from them. |
29 | %%* DeusExMachina: Klea, twice. |
30 | %%* DoesNotLikeGuns: Laurel. |
31 | * EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Klea, a faerie working with trolls.]] |
32 | * ExtranormalInstitute: The Fall Faerie Academy, though of course it's quite normal in Avalon. |
33 | * FantasticCasteSystem: Faeries are divided according to the season of their birth: Winter (the ruling class, extremely powerful and rare); Fall (healers and scientists, including Laurel); Summer (entertainers, illusionists) and Spring (the working class, including Tamani). Unlike some examples, the Spring faeries are still very well off -- no unemployment, poverty, etc. -- but the protocol still grates on Laurel's democratic nerves. |
34 | %%* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Laurel and David's inside joke. |
35 | %%* ForcefulKiss: Tamani does this to Laurel several times. |
36 | * FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Mara, a classmate of Laurel's at the Academy who holds a grudge against her for winning the position of the scion over her head. |
37 | * FreakinessShame: David calls Laurel's blossom "sexy". |
38 | * GranolaGirl: Laurel is a vegan raised by hippie parents who believe in natural medicine. Justified, as she's a sentient plant and can't even digest animal foods. |
39 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Faeries speaking Gaelic; their closest connection to the human world is a manor in Scotland. |
40 | * GreenEyedMonster: David and Tamani are fiercely jealous of each other, as are Laurel and Yuki in the third book. |
41 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why Barnes, the BigBad of the first two books, has [[spoiler:David and Laurel]] thrown in the river. |
42 | %%* HellBentForLeather: Klea. |
43 | * HoldYourHippogriffs: Plant-related faerie idioms such as "same fruit, different bough". |
44 | * HookedUpAfterwards: [[spoiler:Chelsea and David, though it's subverted in the epilogue when it's revealed that Chelsea and David eventually broke up.]] |
45 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each of the books has a plural OneWordTitle, except for the last, a VerbedTitle, which is a OneWordTitle subtrope. |
46 | ** Wings |
47 | ** Spells |
48 | ** Illusions |
49 | ** Destined |
50 | * IHaveAFamily: Shar, admonishing Laurel to take her mission seriously: "I have a daughter, did you know that? (...) And I'd like her to have a father for at least the next hundred years, thank you very much." |
51 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Chelsea to David when he falls in love with Laurel. [[spoiler: Though after ''Illusions'', she might have a chance with him after all ... ]] |
52 | * InternalizedCategorism: Tamani internalizes his Spring faerie status, much to Laurel's annoyance. |
53 | * ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler: Yuki is only at Laurel's school to spy on her for Klea, but she actually develops feelings for Tamani, who only seduces her to get more information on Klea's plans.]] |
54 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: In the final book, David chooses to erase his memories of what happened at the final battle to defend Avalon.]] |
55 | %%* LoveDodecahedron: Ryan/Chelsea/David/Laurel/Tamani/Yuki. |
56 | * MeaningfulName: One meaning of the Japanese name Yuki is "snow", and [[spoiler: Yuki is a winter faerie.]] |
57 | * MementoMacGuffin: The baby ring Tamani gives Laurel. |
58 | %%* TheMole: [[spoiler: Yuki.]] |
59 | %%* MuggleFosterParents: The Sewells. |
60 | %%* NerdsAreSexy: David. |
61 | * NeutralFemale: Subverted. [[spoiler: When David and Tamani get into a brawl over Laurel, she breaks up the fight, tells them she's through with both of them, storms off - and spends the rest of the day kissing Tamani.]] |
62 | * NoPeriodsPeriod: Laurel never does get a human period, but the faerie equivalent - growing a blossom out of her back - is discussed in detail. |
63 | %%* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler: Yuki, the Winter faerie.]] |
64 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Faeries can reach up to two hundred years in age. |
65 | %%* OurFairiesAreDifferent |
66 | %%* PetMonstrosity: Bess. |
67 | %%* PlantPerson: Faeries. |
68 | %%* ShirtlessScene: Tamani and David each get at least one. |
69 | %%* SingleTargetSexuality: Tamani feels this way about Laurel. |
70 | * SnicketWarningLabel: In the end of the final book in the series, the author warns the readers that they shouldn't read the epilogue if they don't want to spoil the happy ending. [[spoiler: David and Chelsea get together, but break up. David decides he wants to erase all memories of meeting Laurel, getting involved in the faerie world, and killing all the trolls.]] |
71 | * SwordInTheStone: The original Sword in the Stone can be found in Avalon, and only humans can touch it. |
72 | * TestKiss: Laurel shares a literal, scientific test kiss with each of her boys: David, to find out if she exhales oxygen like a plant, and later Tamani, to see if she can "sense" him with her Fall faerie powers. |
73 | * TookALevelInBadass: In ''Spells'', David starts bodybuilding and reveals his skill with a gun in order to be more helpful to Laurel. |
74 | * VerbedTitle: The final book, "Destined". |
75 | * WhatTheHellHero: Shar delivers a stinging speech to Laurel about the way she's been flirting with Tamani while still dating David. |
76 | * WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Laurel's foster-mother struggles with the idea of Laurel being a faerie, although she does come to accept it later on. |
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